how do you take pictures?

Post by **linear** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 10:07 pm

Ok, I know how to take pictures, amybe even good ones....

But my camera (Fuji FinePix 1400), a great allaround digital camera, sucks at taking pictures of my LCD. I get decent contrast when I use the flash, but the glare make your eyeballs bleed in the rest of the picture. If I use room light, or no light, I get no contrast in the display.

I know the thing's redreshing, but my shutter speeds are way slow, it catches the whole display, it's just unbelievably dim. All the pics I see around here are great, but I can't get a decent shot so save my ass. It even shows up great in the LCD onboard my camera, so I can't imagine that the room light is inadequate. Is there some polarization issue with my camera? Do I need to stand on my head? Sacrifice a goat? Help!

Or does everyone else take theirs with film and scan them?

Post by **Henry** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 9:24 pm

Well, never take the pictures with a flash. They NEVER turn out. We use a Nikon 990 here. It does a great job. For the really nice pictures we also have color correcting photo lights. Make sure it's no in direct sunlight or under too artificial light. It's a big balancing act.

Post by **Cheese** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 2:53 pm

I general use very low light conditions, no flash, macro mode (lol) and a very very long exposure (and a desk to rest the cam on)

Cheers,

r.

Post by **linear** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 7:54 am

Heh, I use macro mode whenever possible....

Post by **Cheese** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 2:18 pm

On 2001-12-17 07:54, linear wrote:
Heh, I use macro mode whenever possible....

lol

r.

Polarsmurf · Post by **Polarsmurf** » Tue Dec 18, 2001 3:14 am

ezonics webcam.

calvin166 · Post by **calvin166** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:00 pm

i suck at taking pics, is it possible you guys could go into a little more depth?

SilmarilS · Post by **SilmarilS** » Fri May 23, 2003 9:02 am

Do you have some example of what your camera take?

Pheonix · Post by **Pheonix** » Fri May 23, 2003 11:29 am

It took me AGES to get decent pictures of my MX212 for my review!

I'm hoping the camera I plan to get, a Canon Powershot S45, will cope abit better. Currently I have a 3MP Kodak DX3700.

I found that artifically lighting the LCD from below worked the best (I used a halogen desk lamp) and turning the flash off on the camera
also pictures slightly from the side tended to turn out better.

calvin166 · Post by **calvin166** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:25 pm

umm this is what hppens when i take a pic without flash

Post by **Henry** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:32 pm

I would recomend taking it in lower light.

calvin166 · Post by **calvin166** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:34 pm

umm ok

Pheonix · Post by **Pheonix** » Sat May 24, 2003 4:16 am

Or if that don't work, try what I said, artifically light it from an angle left/right and from below...

Atarien · Post by **Atarien** » Sat May 24, 2003 6:44 am

taken with a Fuji 1400Z, macro, no flash, room light